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Friends don't let friends mindlessly share propaganda that enables power-mad, murderous dictators. Wherever you see the RT icon get it taken down. #FreeUkraine Image
Canada's "Conservatives" have been carrying Putin's water for years. Useful idiots at best, though there can be no doubt that some have taken money directly, just like their American counterparts /2 #cdnpoli Image
If Trump is Putin's puppet what does that make @candicebergen? (Hint: nothing good). That said, so far Canada's "Conservatives" aren't openly praising Putin like their U.S. counterparts are, indeed they're proposing counter-measures vs Russia. Nice to see but will it last? /3 Image
From Brexit to Trump to #FluTruxKlan to you-name-it: where you see mass social network disinformation campaigns you're seeing Putin's handiwork. Political parties like Canada's "Conservatives" enabling these campaigns are useful idiots at best. AT BEST. /5
Global superpower Russia may well yet capture #Ukraine but they'll never hold it. Any Russian victory in this country is temporary. This excellent documentary laying out #Ukraine's 2014 #RevolutionOfDignity explains why. /6
Sometimes there is a right and wrong /7 Image
It's the job of Canada's journalists to get every "Conservative" they can find on the record inre Donald Trump's involvement with Russia specifically as it relates to #Ukraine. If you praised #PutinsPuppet in the past where do you stand today? Speaks to your judgement /9 #cdnpoli Image
I found this 30 min #Russia #Ukraine video by @RealLifeLore22 very worth my time. /10
This American "Conservative" (and serial Presidential hopeful) takes money hand over fist from Russian oligarchs & has done so for years. /11 #Ukraine
Just needed doing, I guess. /12 #FreeUkraine #PutinWarCriminal Image
As the world responds to Russia's bloodthirsty invasion of #Ukraine by sanctioning Russian businesses and oligarchs I feel like I'm not hearing enough from one of Russia's biggest enablers in Canada, the Royal Bank. Still collaborating @RBC? /13 #cdnpoli nationalobserver.com/2022/03/02/new…
Far as I know, as of yet there's no sign #RoyalBankOfCanada @RBC will lift a finger against the Russian oligarchs they partner with but they'll throw a pittance to #Ukraine & hope Canadians don't notice their ongoing complicity with one of today's greatest monsters. /14 #cdnpoli Image
Questions for @RBC: how much money have you floated Putin & his oligarch buddies with since they invaded Georgia in 2008? How much since Putin puppet #Yanukovych was killing Ukrainians on the streets in 2014? How much are you *still* floating them even now? /15 #cdnpoli #Ukraine
Feel free to correct me on any of this @RBC. I'm right here. /16
/17 Image
Come senators congressmen
Please heed the call
Don't stand in the doorway
Don't block up the hall
For he that gets hurt
Will be he who has stalled
The battle outside ragin
Will soon shake your windows
& rattle your walls
For the times they are achangin/18 iea.org/reports/a-10-p…
Waiting on you @RBC. It's bad enough you're one of the world's top financiers of climate devastation but are you really going to keep looking the other way while your Russian partners are committing mass murder? /19 #cdnpoli #Ukraine bloomberg.com/news/features/…
One of many great responses you can bring to Canada's intellectually & morally bankrupt "Conservatives" who are working hard to gaslight us into thinking more pipelines are the solution to Apocalyptic petrostate dictators /20
“The world's being blackmailed, thanks to an over-reliance on fossil fuels. Avoiding future wars & petro-thuggery is reason enough to move beyond the era of fossil fuels in favor of renewable energy, storage & the electrification of almost everything.” 21 finance.yahoo.com/news/putin-war…
“They’re using this money to kill people,” Roman Shakhmatenko told the meeting from a basement bomb shelter /22 climatechangenews.com/2022/03/02/ukr Image
"It's a war underwritten by oil & gas, whose most crucial weapon may be oil & gas & we can’t fully engage because we are dependent on oil & gas. If you want to stand with the brave people of #Ukraine, you need to find a way to stand against oil & gas." /23 yesmagazine.org/opinion/2022/0…
Our slowest, most backwards & most invested in broken status quo maintenance are making the historically merit-less case that yet more pipelines'll somehow restrain a petro state tyrant rather than removing entirely the need for pipelines that'd cripple his ambitions forever /25 Image
In addition to the absolute critical necessity of addressing the #ClimateEmergency, the global transition away from fossil fuels towards renewable energy frees us forever from the capricious, violent whims of powermongering petrostate tyrants in Russia, the Middle East etc. /26
We get to see this unfold in realtime right now & the very same folks that found kind words for #PutinsPuppet Trump & for Putin's disinformation-fuelled #FluTruxKlan are now telling us their big idea on how to beat Putin once & for all. Why on earth would anybody listen? /27 Image
This "Conservative" carried water for #PutinsPuppet Trump in just about every way you could imagine. Putin's puppet's puppet, if you like. That he's reacquired some semblance of a spine for at least the moment tells you how badly Russia's faring. /28
So it begins: Canada's "Conservative" media tools take a page from their American counterparts and start openly shilling for Russia. Ask yourself why that is, then ask yourself how long before the party follows suit /30 Image
Putin had a far easier time subjugating half of America's political spectrum than he's had subjugating Ukraine. What destruction he visited on America through his puppet Trump (& for peanuts!) was some of the most impactful spycraft in human history. /31 rawstory.com/donald-trump-p…
Twitter: you have a job to do /32 rawstory.com/meet-russias-o…
America's "Conservatives" downplayed, hid or outright lied about the great many #TrumpRussia connections & were largely successful in convincing America's stupidest people. In Canada these geniuses now propose a pipeline arms race with a petrostate during a #ClimateEmergency. /34 Image
I had to see it now so do you /35 #Ukraine #TrumpRussia Image
Some of us could see exactly what was happening every step of the way. Others went out & bought merch. /38 Image
And as in all things, The Media has it's share of culpability on all this too. /39
Official position of Canada's "Conservatives" is we must fire up a #PipelineArmsRace with petrostate tyrant Putin during a #ClimateEmergency rather than rapidly transitioning to clean energy on a massive scale as fast as we can which scientists agree we need to do anyways /40
I mean do I have this right? Is this *really* the position?

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